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When Not to Win a Trick

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The Muddicombe Mo- bile Concert Party had its beginning, where many

THE inexperienced bridge player, the rest of the play. A second spade good things began, in the

bends every effort toward the lead would clear the suit and with -winning of tricks, under pll circum-West on lead, declarer's remaining! stances and regardless of their class, diamond stopper would remain in-

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trick," and he is grateful for all clarer to collect

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experienced player has learn-home, and at least one club,

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having diamond Jed prizes. This valuable lesson enables need of

evacuee family at peace him to wage the brilliant sort of de-through declarer's remaining honour,

with each other, watch- fence found in the following deal: and he saw further that if he were

to retain the king as the only spade ing over the welfare of stopper for his side, it would be very

the village, left Fanny doubtful that East could ever get on thead. There was no assurance that with energy still to spare.

declarer himself did not hold the spade jack as well as the ace, but if this

was so, it was an odds-on chinace that no line of defener could be attressful. West was determined not to give up without struggle; hence on declarer's spade. nee, liberately played the king!

The effect of this bold unblocking play is easy to follow. Now there was absolutely no way for declarer to clear dummy's spade suit with out giving East the lead and it was equally Impossible for declarer to win nine tricks without establishing spades. West's bold but sound man- Joeuvre had saved the day for the North would have been well no-team.

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A couple of R.A.F. men, from the observation post came to the hill, Fanny's house for a bath.

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"I hear they had a grand concert in Small- town last week," said one of them. "We chaps out here don't see shows like that!"

"Why should not we to something get up amuse the men in the country?" said Fanny to Chloe.

And so it all began.

The Women's Voluntary Services gave the "Muddy. Mobs", as they called them- selves, help and encourage- ment from the first. They helped in copying song parts, in putting the party in touch with custodians of village halls.

If you had asked Fanny how she got her party to- gether she could not have told you. They just seemed to come. The village grocer turned out to be a wonderful tap-dancer. It only needed a little persuasion on the part of Chloe to make him a singer too. A bank clerk in Small- town.was discovered to have a genius for comic recitation. His wife could sing Victorian ballads "so as to melt your heart". A Voluntary Aid De- tachment nurse at the Small- town hospital had been train- ing for the ballet when the war came. She was only too glad, she said, to have a chance of keeping her toes in practice, and dancing positively restful after a day in the wards. The Muddi- combe station master had a He stirring baritone voice. could bring the house down with a sea-shanty or a planta- tion song.

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"We're not just a comic party," said Fanny "A little -of all sorts is our motto."

A roomful of men would sit spellbound on hearing Chloe's violin or her birdlike soprano in n Schubert song.

Fanny was commers, gay, alert, resourceful; drawing audience and performers to- gether with her quick magne- tic sympathy, alling any gap with a story, or with the sudden silly question that set the whole house laughing. Chloo was accompanist. Be twoon them they wrote the

PARTY

topical verses, the local back- chat, which gave to every performance its intimate, per- soun) note.

The party's chief difliculty was transport. There had to be careful pooling of cars and petrol. "Props" were reduced to the pierrot caps and ruffs and the funny man's top hat. They played on curious stages, with Army blankets as cur- lains, the footlights candles in the halves of tobacco tins. There was one occasion when a stage had been prepared of boards laid on the top of barrels. When the performers

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There was the worse night. when the motor launch, re- turning the party from Black- shore Island, stuck on the mud bar, to stay there till high tide.next morning!

All these things made good copy for verses; added to what Fanny called the Con- cert Party's saga.

Smalltown was left alone. Smalltown's defenders were well amused. The Hospital was an exception. Two big wards for Service patients had been added since war be- gan. A stage was set up in one of these. All movable cases were brought in.

They had never had such an audience. One man laugh- ed the bandage off his head

Everyday England and had to have it replaced

By KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM

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all moved to one end of it the boards tilted, with an rehearsed comic effect!

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A piano was always pro- duced from somewhere.

There was a night when a bomb crater stopped the only Опе road to the aerodrome. airman carried Chloe over the debris, another carried her crutch.

There were times when the arrival of the concert -party coincided with that of Nazi aircraft.

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"See what ถ name you folks have got..

Even Goering can't keep away from your show!"

There was a night when the snow came during a per- formance on the downs. The cars were stuck, the track to the main road blotted out. Wrapped in the Army blan Kets that had draped their stage, the "Muddy. Mob " spent the night round the stove in the hat that had housed their show.

in the interval. Another told the matron that he'd find an- other bomb and get another knock if she'd give him an- other show like that!

Sometimes the audience were able to supplement, the party. The gunners in Windi- cliff Royal Hotel included n professional concertina player.

"He made us feel terribly amateurish," said. Fanny, "but he was quite gracious to us, too".

There was no need for the Party to learn the newest songs. The audience were prepared to join in anything, from "Jerusalem" to "Two Lovely Black Eyes."

They sang the nostalgic songs of the last Great War ~~"There's ♫ long, long trail ", "My little grey home

"Tipperary". Led by the station master they sang "Land of Hope and Glory" and "Drake's Drum". A topical version of "Mr Dooley" would almost bring off the roof.

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Chloe, at the piano, heard the tune dragged in a way that should have shocked her

car.

"It isn't just a song," she thought. "They mean every word of it! And England means it, too!"

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